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SCP-3622 Keter ? low confidence
SCP-3622
Expected annual
$9.4M
One-time setup
$7.1M
Annual recurring
$9.0M
Personnel
44
One-time setup is approximately $7.12M driven by containment-suite construction, detection/tooling, secure development environment, and corporate acquisition contingency; recurring annual costs are roughly $9.04M driven primarily by personnel wages, ongoing R&D/detection maintenance, legal/PR campaigns, amnestic administrations, and logistics.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.1M
Equipment $2.6M
[#7, #8, #9, #21] Initial detection tooling ($1,000,000), secure development workstations and servers ($1,300,000), network segmentation initial engineering ($150,000), communications/access restrictions implementation ($120,000).
Corporate Sabotage One Time $2.2M
[#15] Reserve for strategic acquisitions / small consultancy takeovers / immediate buyouts to limit spread (one-time acquisition budget).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M
[#6] Lab fit-out for memetic research program and safe testing protocols (mid-range estimate).
Buyout Pool One Time $500K
[#13] One-time buyout/hiring package reserve for initial acquisitions of infected personnel (5-person reserve at mid-range).
Facilities $440K
[#1] Construction/retrofit of secure humanoid containment suites (4 suites assumed at mid-range per-suite cost).
Workplace Decontamination Wave $300K
[#20] One-time cost for a large initial workplace hardware replacement / cleanup wave (mid-range for hundreds of workstations).
Training Development $60K
[#10, #11] Initial training and course development for staff and contractors on recognition and alternate workflows; includes initial tooling/training design.
Alternative Workflow Tooling Initial $50K
[#11] Initial tooling/coaching cost for alternative workflows for affected teams (estimated for multiple teams).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $9.0M/yr
Staff Wages $5.2M/yr
[#3, #4, #6, #16, #24] Salaries and benefits for security/rapid-response teams, field agents specialized in software-culture infiltration, R&D researchers/technicians, medical/psychiatric staff, and oversight/administrative staffing (aggregated).
Cover Story And Legal $1.0M/yr
[#14, #17, #15] Ongoing misinformation/PR campaigns, legal/HR reserves (employment disputes, severance, NDAs), and small recurring sabotage/operational influence budgets.
Supplies And Consumables $630K/yr
[#5, #19] Class A amnestic procurement and per-dose administration costs (estimated annual administrations) plus waste handling / contaminated-material disposal.
Research And Monitoring $600K/yr
[#6, #7, #9, #8] Ongoing R&D staffing/consumables & overhead, detection tooling maintenance/training, and forensic storage/logging operations; includes secure-dev environment maintenance portion.
Facilities Maintenance $400K/yr
[#1, #21] Ongoing utilities, cleaning, EM-shielding upkeep, and physical site maintenance for containment suites and communications/access controls.
Talent Acquisition $400K/yr
[#12] Covert recruiting, placement fees, relocation bonuses and inducements to move infected individuals to controlled positions (annual placements budget).
Logistics And Transport $350K/yr
[#3, #16, #23] Emergency response travel, secure transport of detainees, vehicle/flight rentals and rapid-deployment logistics for containment operations.
Alternative Workflow Productivity Loss $145K/yr
[#11, #22] Opportunity cost/productivity loss from replacing Agile ceremonies and degraded output during isolation (baseline estimate based on example calculations in notes).
Device Replacement Recurring $100K/yr
[#20, #19] Ongoing replacement/sanitization of contaminated workplace hardware on a repeat-incident basis.
Containment Suite Operational $70K/yr
[#2] Operational cost for occupied suites (staffing shifts, utilities, food, cleaning) estimated from expected occupied-suite days per year.
Psychological Services Civilians $60K/yr
[#18] Post-exposure counseling and short-term rehabilitation costs for affected civilians (per-case scaled to expected annual caseload).
Communications Admin $50K/yr
[#21] Ongoing administrative costs to manage access restrictions, emergency tool cutoffs, and enforcement of emergency controls.
Training Delivery $30K/yr
[#10] Annual delivery, refresher courses and updates for staff and contractor training programs.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $9.0M/yr
91.5% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, training, and occasional single-case responses; no major outbreak.
occasional individual detections routine R&D and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $9.5M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$430K vs baseline
Localized cluster or small containment event requiring multiple amnestic administrations, short-term suite usage and legal/PR response.
10s of infected developers several 72-hour detentions targeted PR/legal operations
🚨 Major Outbreak $84.0M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$75.0M vs baseline
Large, controlled outbreak (hundreds-to-thousands infected) requiring mass amnestic campaigns, major PR/legal operations, mass facility expansion and significant productivity losses.
mass industry spread large coordinated infection vector (software release)
👥 Personnel 44 total
Role Count Notes
Field Agent (software-culture infiltration) 10 [#16] Specialized agents trained to operate in corporate dev environments; fully-burdened cost assumed ~ $150k/agent/year.
Research Scientist 6 [#6, #7] Researchers and senior technical staff for memetic R&D and detection development; mid-to-senior salary assumptions applied.
Medical Officer / Psychiatrist 3 [#4, #5] Medical/psych staff for intake, monitoring and amnestic administration; on-call and per-treatment staffing included in recurring wages.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 11 [#3] Security personnel for transport and guarding, contributing to rapid-response and cell staffing requirements.
Engineer / Maintenance 4 [#8, #9] Network, secure-dev and facility engineers responsible for segmentation, logging and secure CI/CD infrastructure maintenance.
Technician / Lab Technician 4 [#6, #19] Lab and detection technicians for consumables, instrumentation, and waste handling.
Administrative Staff 3 [#24] Administrative support for approval chains, oversight, and interdepartmental coordination.
Legal / HR / PR 2 [#14, #17] Legal and public relations staff handling cover stories, litigation reserves, NDAs, and corporate influence campaigns.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#24] Senior oversight role for containment approval and executive coordination (authorized termination approvals, EX orders).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are derived from wide ranges in analyst notes and are highly scale-dependent; memetic transmission, outbreak size and required responses are uncertain, so overall confidence is low.
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